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It baffles me when engineers are using VMs and clusters provisioned on cloud providers for tasks where their powerhouse laptops (mostly the latest Apple Silicon ones with 64G+ memory) would be just as fine, but faster, and much cheaper. Instead of this they are using their laptops as thin clients to ssh into much less reliable/performant machines.

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I'd love to have them now as I'm stuck in JS dependency hell at a startup that doesn't have the resources to resolve them.

Would appreciate a little more context. Can you provide an example of JS dependency hell and the kind of resources you think are needed to resolve it?

One reason I think could be for AI development: you need way more memory and high-tier GPUs for AI app development/testing.

Yes, similarly, there are cases when you need actual cloud resources. But most of the time the laptop is fine, even for LLM dev work.

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